{"id":6355,"date":"2017-06-16T13:48:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T19:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6355"},"modified":"2017-06-16T13:48:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T19:48:31","slug":"this-week-in-the-war-11-17-june-1945-victory-parade-in-rangoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6355","title":{"rendered":"This week in the War, 11–17 June 1945: Victory parade in Rangoon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command, Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten, takes the salute during the Rangoon Victory Day Parade, 15 June 1945 [Public domain]<\/p><\/div>By June 1945, the Japanese army had pulled out of Rangoon. This week in the war, on 15 June 1945, Lord Louis Mountbatten held a victory parade in the city.<\/p>\n

Rangoon—where Aung San Suu Kyi<\/a>,\u00a0the current head of state for Myanmar (Burma), has her home—had been occupied by the Japanese<\/a> since 8 March 1942.<\/p>\n

Fighting continued in Burma well into July, with the Japanese suffering heavy losses in their attempts to withdraw their armies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By June 1945, the Japanese army had pulled out of Rangoon. This week in the war, on 15 June 1945, Lord Louis Mountbatten held a victory parade in the city. Rangoon—where Aung San Suu Kyi,\u00a0the current head of state for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[661,761,1096,659],"class_list":["post-6355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-war-ii","tag-burma","tag-mountbatten","tag-myanmar","tag-rangoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6356,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6355\/revisions\/6356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}